Fellow Wine\nLovers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sorry to say it\nso early but Christmas arrived here yesterday at Park Vintners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As with many of\nus whose survival relies entirely on goods arriving from abroad, when we heard\nfaint rumour of a proposed exit from the Union of Europe at the end of last\nmonth, we made certain that we had ordered enough stock to arrive in the UK\nbefore we were confined to solitary. As\na consequence, since mid-October, we have had what is professionally known as a\nstinkload of stock sitting in a repurposed bunker, somewhere underneath the\nplain of Salisbury. Whilst our wine was\nundoubtedly safe there, given the amount of military manoeuvres going on\noverhead, it was costing us too much money in rent. Thus, with a heavy heart, we got them to\ndeliver the bulk of it to us yesterday and, given that Alex is suffering from\nan entirely self-diagnosed bout of housemaids knee, Wayne moved over 100 cases\nof wine downstairs by himself yesterday \u2013 he definitely earnt himself that pint\nin the pub last night! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obviously, since\nhe wouldn\u2019t have had to have done this had we not had to order in anticipation\nof EU exit that never happened, we can still happily blame Brexit for making us\nmention Christmas so early in November!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the world\noutside the shop, Westminster seems to be continuing its clear-out as more MP\u2019s\ndecide they don\u2019t fancy the coalface anymore, all of this published on Twitter\nof course, the modern day politicians social media conduit of choice. And the twitter supremo, Mr Trump is also\nfacing a potential clear-out of his own, should his impeachment bear fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sport ceased to\nexist at about 11am last Saturday and we\u2019re now all about Chamber Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually it came\nback to life for all the wrong reasons as rugby club Saracens were found to be\ndoing a Man City and got a fined and docked 35 points for basically paying\ntheir players more than they should. \nThey are of course appealing this fine and points cull but in the\nmeantime should they still be allowed to play in Europe? Probably not. \nThe man sitting on the fence did observe that since Saracens contributed\nthe spine of the England Rugby team, was their rule-breaking in fact a good\nthing? Hmmmm. He also pointed out that until just over a\nyear ago Sarries was 50% owned by South African investment company Remgro \u2013\nhere I think he\u2019s just trying to stir up trouble so we\u2019ll move on\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Happily, not all\nthe cases of wine ended up downstairs, so here\u2019s a quick list of our new\nlistings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FRANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Champagne –\nDelavenne P\u00e8re et Fils Grand Cru Brut Rose NV – \u00a345 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Burgundy – Domaine Fournillon Chablis\n2016 – \u00a316.99 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Loire – Domaine Jouan Fr\u00e8re et Soeur\nMenetou Salon 2018 – \u00a315.99 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rhone – La Cave de Gigondas Vacqueyras\nRaveil 2016 – \u00a318.49 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ITALY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Abruzzo – Collequieto Montepulciano\nd’Abruzzo 2018 – \u00a310.99 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Piedmont – Cantine Povero ‘Priore’ Barolo\n2015 – \u00a333 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SPAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Costers del Segre – Mas Blanch I Jove Sao\nAbrivat 2016 – \u00a317.99 & Mas Blanch I Jove Troballa 2018 – \u00a317.99 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Priorat – Marco Abella Mas Mallola 2015 –\n\u00a327.99 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n USA <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n California – Vina Robles Viognier 2018 –\n\u00a319.99 & Vina Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 – \u00a324.99<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SPIRITS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve restocked\na few of these and listed a couple of new ones, so here\u2019s a snapshot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Calvados we\nhave reshelved the Chateau du Breuil\nVSOP – \u00a335.99<\/strong> and also the fabulous Champagne Cognac Jean Fillioux La Pouyade – \u00a354.00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then we went\nto Scotland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n From Islay we\ngot the Finlaggan Old Reserve – \u00a336<\/strong> back\non the shelf and also the Speyside favourite, Benromach 10 year old – \u00a340<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n New listings\nthat we\u2019re extremely excited about are the Benromach\n2011 Sassacaia Wood Finish – \u00a348, <\/strong>which is the perfect storm of quality\nwhisky finished in fancy supertuscan barrels! \nWe\u2019ve also managed to snaffle a bit of Macallan Double Cask 12 year old – \u00a358.50 <\/strong>usually they won\u2019t let us\nhave any!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then we went\nto Japan (gulp!). We\u2019ve been selling\nwhisky from here for over ten years and frankly we should have invested in some\nof these when they only cost 50 quid: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hibiki Harmony Blended Whisky – \u00a375,\nYamazaki 12 year old – \u00a3120 and Hakusha 12 year old – \u00a3140.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n TASTING THIS WEEKEND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It would be\nchurlish not to open something new so I think we\u2019ll broach the Domaine Fournillon Chablis 2016<\/strong> and the\nCollequieto Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2018.<\/strong> For those of you interested in the spirits, we\ndo have the Benromach Sassicaia open, and also the Finlaggan and the Benromach\n10 year old, along with numerous other gins and things. Sadly, the Japanese ones are not open because\nwe have so few of them, and no, not even if you ask really nicely\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s it from\nus for now, come and see us for a taste and a natter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Wine Lovers, Sorry to say it so early but Christmas arrived here yesterday at Park Vintners. As with many of us whose survival relies entirely on goods arriving from abroad, when we heard faint rumour of a proposed exit from the Union of Europe at the end of last month, we made certain that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}